PubTalk 9/2006 — Water Odysseys

Surface-water and ground-water flow in the Santa Clara Valley

by Randall T. Hanson, Research Hydrologist

• What has deep drilling in the valley found about ground-water flow?
• A new computer model improves our understanding of water-flow patterns
• Learn how underground water makes the ground rise and fall--is the valley sinking?
• Why is our ground water so remarkably clean?
• Uncontrolled artesian wells were once a nuisance here-and may be again